The greatest enemy ever created is the albino red dragon. Everyone minmaxes in the wrong direction for that guy.
How so?
They expect a white dragon with ice breath?
Ah, makes sense.
I haven’t played much dnd, do people expect stat blocks to be fixed? Like, is meta knowledge such a part of the game that its a dick move for gm to change it?
It is expected that the gm will tweak things here and there for whatever reason, its part of their job. Its considered a major faux pas for a player to look at the statblocks of monsters you are fighting.
Within the same campaign? Yes, I expect the statblock to be (reasonably) fixed.
But from one campaign to the next? Not necessarily, unless they’re explicitly set in the same setting.
Some people do, but I would say it’s one of those things where you hear about it disproportionately often compared to how frequently it actually happens, since people are much more likely to write about negative experiences
I’m glad I don’t play with people like this.
“Look like this is a rare variant or mutation that can”
My old DM said explicitly if he told us the monster’s name in the MM he expected us to know it’s stats, if he didn’t then statblocks would be unreliable.
